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LLM internals and the ‘stochastic parrot’ debate

A post argues that looking inside LLMs with mechanistic interpretability could help settle the debate over whether they’re ‘stochastic parrots.’

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Pierre BeckmannPB
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The author claims that even standard LLMs internally rely on structures like those philosophers describe in papers about understanding. They argue that examining those structures could help settle the ‘stochastic parrot’ debate.

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Pierre Beckmann@BeckmannPierreLooking inside LLMs with mech interp can also help settle the stochastic parrot debate. And it turns out that even vanilla LLM internally rely on the kind of structures philosophers describe in epistemology papers for "understanding. 1/13d
Séb Krier@sebkrierRT @BeckmannPierre: Looking inside LLMs with mech interp can also help settle the stochastic parrot debate. And it turns out that even vani…12d
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    Pierre Beckmann@BeckmannPierreLooking inside LLMs with mech interp can also help settle the stochastic parrot debate. And it turns out that even vanilla LLM internally rely on the kind of structures philosophers describe in epistemology papers for "understanding. 1/13d
    Séb Krier@sebkrierRT @BeckmannPierre: Looking inside LLMs with mech interp can also help settle the stochastic parrot debate. And it turns out that even vani…12d
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